Ethereum Classic, a fork of Ethereum, surged after the US-based crypto exchange Coinbase revealed plans to support it across its platform over the coming months.

The altcoin, trading with the symbol ETC, surged nearly 25 percent on Monday on the news of listing on Coinbase.

Ethereum Classic, a branch of the second-greatest cryptographic money, took off as much as 22 percent after the computerized trade Coinbase Inc. said it will start exchanging the virtual token in the following couple of months.

Building work for supporting the cryptographic money will now start, Coinbase said in a blog entry. The San Francisco-based organization noticed that clients can hope to see open confronting programming applications and different signs that the benefit is being included.